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The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has released Health Advisory: Revised Skilled Nursing Facility Visitation, which supersedes all previous nursing home visitation guidance and is effective February 26. The updated advisory aligns with State and Federal guidelines (See CCB-10 on February 19). GNYHA has been advocating for the relaxation of stringent State visitation...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that nursing home visitations can resume in accordance with Federal guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (see press release here). GNYHA has been advocating for relaxation of stringent State visitation requirements to allow families and loved ones...

Over the past few weeks, there has been a significant uptick in the number of cybersecurity incidents affecting the health care sector. This comes at a time when hospital staff are devoting extensive time and resources to the COVID-19 response, and many employees are working remotely. We are providing links below to information about specific...